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Lamentations 3:46-48

The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 3:46-48

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Here occurs a break in the alphabetic order, as these three verses begin, not, as they should, with ayin, but with pe (see Introduction).

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